I want my money back, PC... Page 2

Started by Honest October 2nd, 2010 10:26 AM
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Posted October 31st, 2010
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Before anyone questions why I can answer these question, let's just say this isn't my main account with the supporter status.

You know, those people with the sexy blue usernames? Do you mean the ones with the sexy, blue, italic usernames? I've seen them around. I actually like the blue color. While I sometimes see it too similar to the mod color, I think green would be the next best thing.
Well, I'm sure that a few of you gave your money for the perks of being blue and awesome, such as blogs, or a bigger avatar or larger PM storage. I'm not really sure why I donated, to be honest. I wouldn't doubt it had something to do with the perks and helping out the forums, but at the time it just seemed like a good idea.
Have you ever felt that you found the spending of that money a waste of time? Can't say I have really.
Would you want you money back, and go back to being regular member? Thinking about it, yeah I probably would. The badge and italic name is great, but there's not much difference between a supporter and a regular member after awhile, other than the perks. Plus, if you're into making profile designs with a variety of colors, then sometimes the blue name can clash with it (although, you can asked for it removed). XD;

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YOU WOULD'VE THOUGHT THAT $6628.80 WOULD'VE DONE AT LEAST -SOMETHING- WITH THE DB
qft. Seems like the money is going somewere, just not the site.

Ever remember the Zango pokemon rpg thing that pc sponsored? Even when we informed the owners of pc that it was nothing more then spyware they refused to remove it citing monetary issues.

Seems like it more about the money then the members.

Truthfully the only real change i've noticed is the exorbant amounts of skins we have. 73 skins in total. You know what they say about a pile of crap? Yah, put nice clothes on it and it looks good. Thats pretty much why we have all those skins.

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Well, I totally regret some of my last donation where a few admins pooled together a bit of money to go toward the license for vB4 and then we decided it was fugly and didn't want to switch to it. So that kind of went toward nothing . :P But overall, nah, I don't regret it. I've been here forever and I don't mind helping the place that's been an internet "home" for me stay afloat and all that.

Let's bump that up to $7k. Divide that by 12 to find the amount per year and you get about $583. Divide that again by the number of years PC has accepted donations (I'm using 4 but I think we've accepted longer than that) and you get under $150 a month. Consider that the cheapest dedicated servers are at least $150 (the "low-end" ones) and the supporter income is not a ridiculous amount. It's under the mark. Last I knew, the server PC is on costs just under $400/month (plus any overage) for bandwidth. :/ Ads and income from all the sites on the server (I think Steve hosts a few of his things here too) barely cover the rest of the cost. For some reason people seem to think that if we ever upgrade our server it's a one-time cost so a mukload of donations in one month would have us set until the next time we need to upgrade but it's not--if we upgrade, we'd have to keep paying the higher monthly price and the extra $100 that we definitely don't have every month now would have to be paid out of Steve (or other admins') own pockets.

I'm not saying donating to PC is the ~absolute best way ever~ to spend money, and yes there are definitely morally better causes to donate or pool money toward. I'm not gonna argue that, but I am arguing how you imply we should have upgraded to a way better server by now. :( It's not just feasible and tbh, the one we're on now has worked fairly well for us over the last year, give or take a few days of ridiculously high traffic. (Well, that and the name change thing. D:)

Fair enough.. but that's still a freaking ton of money. I guess I'm just extremely surprised.. Plus lot of people don't do it to "Help Steve out" but rather.. to get perks.. which really isn't donating IMO.. but actually.. "buying" status..
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Fair enough.. but that's still a freaking ton of money. I guess I'm just extremely surprised.. Plus lot of people don't do it to "Help Steve out" but rather.. to get perks.. which really isn't donating IMO.. but actually.. "buying" status..
Well that's why there are perks at all, since we know most people have better things to spend their money on so we offer an incentive so that we can keep PC running. :/


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I have a lot of spare money from my Job though my parents wont let me have a Paypal account. If I did though I would've have donated a bit to every forums I go to - And I go to A LOT of forums XD


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I donated because I had $10 and thought it would be better spent to help PC than spent on coffee/food/luxuries. I would rather my username be italicized green, but blue is okay too. And I'm liking the blog that came along with my colors~

I'm intending to donate more as soon as I get a job/obtain more money.
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i donated to help out the community i spend atleast 4 hours a day involved in to help those that have made it such a great place continue to make it amazing.

i dont want a refund, and if i had more money, i'd spend it in a heartbeat. its a good investment to keep the community
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I donated because I wanted to help PC >_o
About that 6628.28 $ thing...We can't really do much about greater matters, I mean, saving people from Africa...I wouldn't mind, but then again, how would you be sure the money you spent will be used to that aim ?
Our world is full of liars, unfortunately -not saying everyone is-.

Also :

It's my damn money and I'll spend it how I want.
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I donated because I felt like it, PC is a great place. And the italic blue user name was just a plus.

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I donated because I wanted to help out a bit. Well I wanted to donate a long time ago way before they added the perks. I wanted to have the green italic username, not going to lie. But I was thinking that it will help out the forum. And since then I want to donate more, which I did. Except someone donated for me (a extra $5), which I am grateful for. ^^ I still am not done. I want to donate one more time. It will come.

I don't want to get a refund. I love this forum and I want it to strive for future members to come. :3

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Posted November 13th, 2017
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I've never wanted a refund back then I may have donated for just a few perks that sparked interest but I do know now that I actually helped out a great forum keep alive, afterall PokéCommunity is far by the best forum I've come across in my lifetime. After my birthday I plan to donate $5-10 dollars more just to help out, every little bit helps. ;D